Colegio de los SS.CC.

- Manquehue Departamento de Ingls

Study Guide for the test

Unit 1

I. Read the descriptions. Write a personality adjective.

1. Someone who shares things with others.

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2. Someone who behaves in a caring way.

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3. Someone with bad manners.

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4. Someone who is not very talkative.

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5. Someone who is good at learning things.

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6. Someone who works a lot.

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7. Someone who never lies.

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II. Write the opposite of each adjective. Use prefixes as in the example.
1. Honest

Dishonest

7. Active

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2. Ambitious

__________________ 8. Lucky

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3. Sensitive

__________________ 9. Mature

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4. Rational

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5. Loyal

__________________ 11. Attractive

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6. Tolerant

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III. Read the sentences and choose the correct verb form.
1 He denied to break / breaking the window with the ball.
2 The waiter recommends to try / trying the tomato soup.
3 She cant give up to smoke / smoking, although her husband really wants her to.
4 She cant afford to buy / buying the trainers.
5 He often imagines to be / being a rich, successful businessman.
6 Shes planning to visit / visiting Paris next summer.
7 She arranged to meet / meeting her friend at 3 oclock.
8 She admitted to drive / driving too fast when the accident happened.

IV. Answer the questions about present simple and present continuous.

When to use which tense?

1. For actions happening regularly, often or never, we use

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2. For actions happening now, we use

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3. The verbs 'be', 'have', 'like' and 'want' are normally only used in

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4. The signal word 'usually' indicates that we have to use

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5. The signal word 'now' indicates that we have to use

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V. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use present simple
or present continuous.

1. Look! They ________________________ (leave) the house.

2. You ________________________ (not /see) her every day.
3. ________________________ (she / eat) dinner at the moment?
4. Samantha ________________________ (do) her homework at the moment.
5. I ________________________ (not /read) a book now.
6. He usually ________________________ (get up) early in the morning.
7. ________________________ (you / go) on holiday by plane sometimes?
8. The baby ________________________ (not /sleep) at the moment.
9. What ________________________ (they / do) right now?
10. Brian ________________________ (cycle) 30 km every day.
11. My parents ________________________ (shop) right now.
12. ________________________ (they / play) computer games every day?
13. We ________________________ (not / go) to school on Sundays.
14. He ________________________ (not / watch) the news every day.